From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-6.8 required=3.0 tests=DKIMWL_WL_HIGH,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SIGNED_OFF_BY, SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,USER_AGENT_GIT autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC10DC3F2D1 for ; Tue, 3 Mar 2020 18:05:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8030220836 for ; Tue, 3 Mar 2020 18:05:24 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=default; t=1583258724; bh=7PAGkUMkITWRXeaFnSAbt/bBop6k7nk6nZjKkTwPpXU=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:In-Reply-To:References:List-ID:From; b=IPSzAzG0OjapbBqgNFF81QgS52vIegFAi1zV9EK++IZ/LkriyN2fFJ8tZx6zKfJu6 A90CpDm3iv1u3J5SenJvQr+rm4RKs1It8drqWWB1tyKGSKweRcW1tOmgEVFhw9ooOG RrNKvkdrXloAImA0WRWFoDBI9lemyUOGxfYiKEXo= Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S2388209AbgCCSFW (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Mar 2020 13:05:22 -0500 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:41210 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1733293AbgCCR6Y (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Mar 2020 12:58:24 -0500 Received: from localhost (83-86-89-107.cable.dynamic.v4.ziggo.nl [83.86.89.107]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 2F01020656; Tue, 3 Mar 2020 17:58:23 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=default; t=1583258303; bh=7PAGkUMkITWRXeaFnSAbt/bBop6k7nk6nZjKkTwPpXU=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:In-Reply-To:References:From; b=g71v8PlIewW3DwKiKm8NnEK7dXibFt7JrfXAkiRBGJawp6A3lBwZ7aYluzAu4IoWV 1LbgVI/fTtNz8LhPHbQ7GzgmUABP0aWTjoGDXzmVyL/KxEScjGS8NQ0wAKBSm4i44T BBLswigHr/+e2qH3cwjryFAxF8BQw0FUI5Z1daa8= From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, David Rientjes , Andrew Morton , Vlastimil Babka , Mel Gorman , Linus Torvalds Subject: [PATCH 5.4 150/152] mm, thp: fix defrag setting if newline is not used Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2020 18:44:08 +0100 Message-Id: <20200303174319.854517709@linuxfoundation.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.25.1 In-Reply-To: <20200303174302.523080016@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20200303174302.523080016@linuxfoundation.org> User-Agent: quilt/0.66 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: David Rientjes commit f42f25526502d851d0e3ca1e46297da8aafce8a7 upstream. If thp defrag setting "defer" is used and a newline is *not* used when writing to the sysfs file, this is interpreted as the "defer+madvise" option. This is because we do prefix matching and if five characters are written without a newline, the current code ends up comparing to the first five bytes of the "defer+madvise" option and using that instead. Use the more appropriate sysfs_streq() that handles the trailing newline for us. Since this doubles as a nice cleanup, do it in enabled_store() as well. The current implementation relies on prefix matching: the number of bytes compared is either the number of bytes written or the length of the option being compared. With a newline, "defer\n" does not match "defer+"madvise"; without a newline, however, "defer" is considered to match "defer+madvise" (prefix matching is only comparing the first five bytes). End result is that writing "defer" is broken unless it has an additional trailing character. This means that writing "madv" in the past would match and set "madvise". With strict checking, that no longer is the case but it is unlikely anybody is currently doing this. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.21.2001171411020.56385@chino.kir.corp.google.com Fixes: 21440d7eb904 ("mm, thp: add new defer+madvise defrag option") Signed-off-by: David Rientjes Suggested-by: Andrew Morton Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Mel Gorman Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- mm/huge_memory.c | 24 ++++++++---------------- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-) --- a/mm/huge_memory.c +++ b/mm/huge_memory.c @@ -177,16 +177,13 @@ static ssize_t enabled_store(struct kobj { ssize_t ret = count; - if (!memcmp("always", buf, - min(sizeof("always")-1, count))) { + if (sysfs_streq(buf, "always")) { clear_bit(TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_REQ_MADV_FLAG, &transparent_hugepage_flags); set_bit(TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_FLAG, &transparent_hugepage_flags); - } else if (!memcmp("madvise", buf, - min(sizeof("madvise")-1, count))) { + } else if (sysfs_streq(buf, "madvise")) { clear_bit(TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_FLAG, &transparent_hugepage_flags); set_bit(TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_REQ_MADV_FLAG, &transparent_hugepage_flags); - } else if (!memcmp("never", buf, - min(sizeof("never")-1, count))) { + } else if (sysfs_streq(buf, "never")) { clear_bit(TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_FLAG, &transparent_hugepage_flags); clear_bit(TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_REQ_MADV_FLAG, &transparent_hugepage_flags); } else @@ -250,32 +247,27 @@ static ssize_t defrag_store(struct kobje struct kobj_attribute *attr, const char *buf, size_t count) { - if (!memcmp("always", buf, - min(sizeof("always")-1, count))) { + if (sysfs_streq(buf, "always")) { clear_bit(TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_DEFRAG_KSWAPD_FLAG, &transparent_hugepage_flags); clear_bit(TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_DEFRAG_KSWAPD_OR_MADV_FLAG, &transparent_hugepage_flags); clear_bit(TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_DEFRAG_REQ_MADV_FLAG, &transparent_hugepage_flags); set_bit(TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_DEFRAG_DIRECT_FLAG, &transparent_hugepage_flags); - } else if (!memcmp("defer+madvise", buf, - min(sizeof("defer+madvise")-1, count))) { + } else if (sysfs_streq(buf, "defer+madvise")) { clear_bit(TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_DEFRAG_DIRECT_FLAG, &transparent_hugepage_flags); clear_bit(TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_DEFRAG_KSWAPD_FLAG, &transparent_hugepage_flags); clear_bit(TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_DEFRAG_REQ_MADV_FLAG, &transparent_hugepage_flags); set_bit(TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_DEFRAG_KSWAPD_OR_MADV_FLAG, &transparent_hugepage_flags); - } else if (!memcmp("defer", buf, - min(sizeof("defer")-1, count))) { + } else if (sysfs_streq(buf, "defer")) { clear_bit(TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_DEFRAG_DIRECT_FLAG, &transparent_hugepage_flags); clear_bit(TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_DEFRAG_KSWAPD_OR_MADV_FLAG, &transparent_hugepage_flags); clear_bit(TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_DEFRAG_REQ_MADV_FLAG, &transparent_hugepage_flags); set_bit(TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_DEFRAG_KSWAPD_FLAG, &transparent_hugepage_flags); - } else if (!memcmp("madvise", buf, - min(sizeof("madvise")-1, count))) { + } else if (sysfs_streq(buf, "madvise")) { clear_bit(TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_DEFRAG_DIRECT_FLAG, &transparent_hugepage_flags); clear_bit(TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_DEFRAG_KSWAPD_FLAG, &transparent_hugepage_flags); clear_bit(TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_DEFRAG_KSWAPD_OR_MADV_FLAG, &transparent_hugepage_flags); set_bit(TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_DEFRAG_REQ_MADV_FLAG, &transparent_hugepage_flags); - } else if (!memcmp("never", buf, - min(sizeof("never")-1, count))) { + } else if (sysfs_streq(buf, "never")) { clear_bit(TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_DEFRAG_DIRECT_FLAG, &transparent_hugepage_flags); clear_bit(TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_DEFRAG_KSWAPD_FLAG, &transparent_hugepage_flags); clear_bit(TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_DEFRAG_KSWAPD_OR_MADV_FLAG, &transparent_hugepage_flags);